Transforming Advertising at eBay
The eBay Ads Global Team is reinventing advertising at eBay! We’re creating innovative ad-tech solutions to optimize the ad experience on eBay. Our goal is to create a valuable experience for both buyers and sellers, while also driving success for our advertising partners. We do this by harnessing data on a massive scale to reveal the passions and lifestyles of real-life people, identifying their purchase intent. To that end, we are innovating rapidly in the ad-tech space and there is no shortage of new challenges for motivated individuals. Join us now—we are ready for you!
Careers In Advertising
Helping sellers sell faster and buyers discover their passions and great new products are core to eBay’s marketplace—that is why they are our primary focus in Ads. Where eBay helps people find their perfect, eBay Ads also helps our partners offer their perfect. As a part of our team you’ll get to partner with individuals and teams across the global company—product managers, engineers, finance, analytics, product marketing managers, sales, and operations. Become a part of eBay history and find your perfect fit on our team.
Engineering
It’s all about the code. If you are a backend, frontend, fullstack, iOS, or Android engineer and want to revolutionize the advertising space for eBay and beyond, we have a role for you. Our team members are building apps, crafting new platforms, and solving complex problems at a massive scale, to offer users the best choice and the most relevance inspired by the most powerful selling platform.
Quality Engineering
It’s not right until you say so. Our Quality Engineers ensure that new releases work as expected for our buyers and sellers, every time. Create end-to-end test plans and then execute them to validate that our solutions have met or exceeded all requirements and business objectives. You are the ultimate gatekeeper of the customer experience.
Product Management
Deliver the end-to-end product experiences that our buyers and sellers love. Your passion is to develop the vision, strategy, and goals to execute our products across teams at eBay. You’ll drive the lifecycle from concept to launch in a way that fosters the growth of our Ads business, enabling buyer discovery and seller velocity.
Sales & Operations
Connect with Sellers and Brands to amplify and grow their business on eBay. You’ll provide strategic consultation on how best to successfully leverage eBay Ads Solutions to achieve their objectives, and work with them to set-up, launch, and optimize campaigns. Together with our partners, we dig deep into our first-party real intent data to uncover unique insights to deliver the right ad experiences to the right user at the right time every time.
Meet Some of Our Team Members
In eBay Ads, you are empowered to explore, encouraged to lead, and have the opportunities and exposure to broaden your influence together with the coaching and support you’ll need.
Ilana
Ads Product Management Manager
San Jose, CA
Ilana has been with eBay for just under 2 years and currently leads the Ads Public API program. She is excited by the enthusiasm of our partners and customers as they join the Ads team on our journey to help accelerate their businesses.
In eBay Ads, you are empowered to explore, encouraged to lead, and have the opportunities and exposure to broaden your influence together with the coaching and support you’ll need.
Ilana describes Advertising’s main goal as being about bringing value to all of our customers; we only show an ad if it benefits both the buyer and seller experience. This makes her feel that she is contributing to a good cause. Outside of work, Ilana likes blogging on her travels around the world, dabbles in photography and teaches home video editing in her community.
Favorite purchase on eBay: An inflatable hot tub, which became her family’s gathering place over the past year with all the quality time spent at home together.
The people and the complexity of technical problems to solve are top reasons why I love eBay Ads!
Angela
Ads Engineering Manager
Portland, OR
Angela has held a variety of roles across Advertising and her current focus is on how advertising is delivered across desktop and mobile experiences. She and her team are constantly driving change across the eBay site by rebuilding architecture and stewarding consistent UI across platforms.
The people and the complexity of technical problems to solve are top reasons why I love eBay Ads!
Angela originally started at eBay as one of the first quality engineers on our Android app. Her role has expanded to match her aspirations since, and she now manages teams focused on front-end user interfaces and platform work.
In her spare time, Angela enjoys photography, reading, baking, and spending time with her dog Leo.
Favorite purchase on eBay: A Rollei 35S camera, one of the smallest 35mm film cameras ever made and ideal for travel.
It is fun, challenging, yet rewarding, to work in an energetic and supportive environment. What more I can ask?
Harwinder
Ads Quality Engineer
San Jose, CA
Harwinder joined eBay in 2017 as a Software Quality Engineer and has worked across multiple teams working to resolve major customer challenges to help them ace their advertising strategy. Exposure to cutting edge technologies and opportunity to quench his desire to learn and grow are just a few of the reasons that keep him motivated.
It is fun, challenging, yet rewarding, to work in an energetic and supportive environment. What more I can ask?
Harwinder has worked on a variety of projects in his career, but calls Advertising his most thrilling opportunity to date. He is proud of the direct impact of his and his team’s work on buyers, sellers, and across eBay.
Outside of work, Harwinder likes to spend time with his family, read books, and volunteer.
Favorite purchase on eBay: A magnificent bronze eagle statue which still adds elegance to his family room.
Being part of eBay Ads has been a wild ride of growth with a lot of fun along the way. We celebrate every milestone with a cake and have had weeks where there was cake every day! It’s challenging, rewarding, and always exciting.
Lauren
Ads Vertical Strategy Lead
San Francisco, CA
Lauren has been with eBay for over 6 years, and has unique experience of taking to market the Promoted Listings product from a beta to a major revenue driver. She was the first hire for the go-to-market team, back when it was like a start-up. She loves that she’s been able to be part of amazing product growth with a truly inspired team.
Being part of eBay Ads has been a wild ride of growth with a lot of fun along the way. We celebrate every milestone with a cake and have had weeks where there was cake every day! It’s challenging, rewarding, and always exciting.
Lauren just started a new role to build a bridge between Ads and the broader eBay business. She’s looking forward to expanding her knowledge on eBay’s inventory strategy and how Ads can play a role in making that successful. She’s loved having the ability within eBay Ads to be able to move around and try new things to fine tune her skillset.
Favorite purchase on eBay: Vintage Persian rugs - Lauren loves that when she buys a one-of-a-kind item on eBay the seller will include a thoughtful note that tells me a bit about the item and their business. It really helps connect our community of buyers with our community of sellers.
How We Get Things Done
In advertising, the sky is truly the limit. You’ll get an unparalleled opportunity to make an impact and the scope of your remit will only be exceeded by your career aspirations. We’re expanding and growing at record pace, and there is no better time to join than now.
Advertising Stats
$224M
Promoted Listings revenue delivered in Q1
58%
increase in Promoted Listings revenue year over year
*Data as of March 31, 2021.
In 2020, together we achieved
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